TY - BOOK AU - Gopinath,Praseeda ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Scarecrows of chivalry: English masculinities after empire AV - PR478.M34 G67 2013eb U1 - 820.9/00914 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - English literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Chivalry in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: English masculinities in transition -- Manly independent men: (de)constructing the English gentleman -- Out of place: Evelyn Waugh and the retreating gentleman -- An orphaned manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex man -- "One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys": posting the gentleman in Philip Larkin's poetry -- "Moulded and shaped": John Wain, Ian Fleming, and threshold masculinities -- Writing women, reading men: A. S. Byatt, Barbara Pym, and the post-gentlemen -- Epilogue: The postcolonial gentleman; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10672485 ER -